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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny O" data-source="post: 934779" data-attributes="member: 61743">At the annual meet last month in Louisville, KY in our meeting with the Ford brass, they basically said that 1) they anticipate energy costs going up long-term and less demand for traditional SUV's, 2) traditional body-on-frame SUV's like the Sport Trac are too heavy to make them any more fuel-efficient than they are now, 3) Ford likes to build at least 15,000 of something for it to be worth their while and 2010 Sport Tracs will total about 12,000, therefore 4) there is no plan to build a pickup version of the new unit-body 2011 Explorer.Congrats on your new purchase!  My advice, get it rustproofed and keep it forever.</blockquote>